Mary Pritchard

Series: Artists in America Series

Duration: 30

Year Published: 1971

Creator: KVZK

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Copyright: Registered 18Jun71 · MP22084 (Jul-Dec 1971) Copyright holder: ETS Program Service Production company: KVZK-TV

Description: Provides a close look at the works and creative philosophy of Mary Pritchard, who is trying to preserve the traditional Polynesian art of creating tapa. Examines a tapa, noting that it is a cloth material made from the bark of mulberry trees. Uses on-location scenes from the island of Tutuila, American Samoa, where Pritchard searches for the raw material to design and create an original tapa.

Complete Record: Provides a close look at the works and creative philosophy of Mary Pritchard, who is trying to preserve the traditional Polynesian art of creating tapa. Examines a tapa, noting that it is a cloth material made from the bark of mulberry trees. Uses on-location scenes from the island of Tutuila, American Samoa, where Pritchard searches for the raw material to design and create an original tapa., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.